User talk:Red5-5757

Welcome to Wikipedia, Red5-5757! Thank you for your contributions. This is an encyclopedia, so remember that it's a necessity to include references listing reliable websites, newspapers, articles, books and other sources you have used to write or expand articles. Please understand that these sources should verify the information in a fair and accurate manner. However, you must not copy and paste text you find anywhere, except for short quotations, marked as such with quote marks and carefully cited to the source the quote was taken from. New articles and statements added to existing articles may be deleted by others if unreferenced or referenced poorly or if they are copyright violations. See referencing for beginners for more details.

I have been editing Wikipedia for some time, so if you have any questions, feel free to leave me a message on my talk page. You can also check out Wikipedia:Questions or type {{help me}} at the bottom of this page.

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Also, when you post on talk pages you should sign your name using four tildes (~~~~); that will automatically produce your username and the date. I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! Adakiko (talk) 03:53, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Inline citations[edit]

Much of how to do so is covered above. help:referencing for beginners is a good start. Often you can just copy/paste a citation to where you want one and edit it to your needs. Take a look at some existing inline citations. Lord of the Rings (musical) has quite a few. (Fellowship! is completely lacking in inline citations.) You should see something like: <ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.theguardian.com/stage/gallery/2014/feb/25/the-fastest-west-end-flops-in-pictures |title= The fastest West End – in pictures |newspaper= [[The Guardian]] |access-date= 29 April 2017 }}</ref> The "<ref>" starts a footnote and "</ref>" ends it. (The hidden "nowiki" stuff keeps that citation from being compiled. When complied, it looks like this.^[1] The footnote is inserted under the {{reflist}} (or for talk pages {{reflist talk}}) and looks like this:

References

^ "The fastest West End – in pictures". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 April 2017.

Stuff enclosed in double curly braces {{ and }} are wp:templates which are expanded given certain "fields". A few fields for {{cite news}} are "|url=", "|title=", "|date=". Common templates used for citations are {{cite news}}, {{cite web}}, {{cite journal}} (for magazines and professional journals), and others as well. See Help:Citation Style 1 for a list. If you search for "template:cite web" you will get the documentation. The documentation gives you, or should give you, a minimum and a recommended minimum list of parameters. A field sets a parameter. If there is no field defined, it will be ignored or an error visible in the reflist may be seen. Use "wp:Show preview" to check your work and see any flagged (not all are flagged) template errors.

It's not that difficult, but the more you know, the more tricks you can pull off! Please check your work with Show preview!

I am not always around. You can ask questions at the wp:Teahouse and get advise (probably better than mine!) Cheers Adakiko (talk) 08:27, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

[1] "The fastest West End – in pictures". The Guardian. Retrieved 29 April 2017.

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